You didn’t know whether Chuck Berry was black or white – it was not a concern.
It is just not something we need to forget easily, to just bend the knee, to put on our t-shirts, Black Lives Matter, and one week after everyone forgets that.
Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing’s funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we’re political.
Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white – dramatic. You have to be strong.
I don’t see myself as a ‘black actor,’ I’m just Shemar Moore the actor.
I generally don’t think most situations can be labeled as black or white.
The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.
I’ve been in situations where I was the only black guy. We’re in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.
I was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, ‘Lord, wash me, and I will be whiter than snow,’ made me sick.
There was a period of 10 years where the conventional wisdom was Black shows don’t sell overseas, therefore nobody is interested.
That’s how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.
I’m not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one’s skin color or one’s gender, I think it should be done based on one’s need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.
I’m light-skinned. I’m mixed with black and white.
I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
I think the lesson is that when you give black voices a platform and the opportunity to tell our story, we will tell good stories just like anybody else.
I’m glad that young black people are successful with the music. I’m not a hater.
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I’m a beautiful, black butterfly.
Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.
Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
There’s a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.
I’m a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool.
All my records feel like a diary of the time and headspace they were made in and ‘Black Sands’ documents this in real time for me. A transition of falling in love with beatmaking again. An appreciation of a place and time and an anticipation for what was going to happen next.
I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn’t even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different teams, different mixtures. We had, like, the only black team in the league, basically. We had four players go to the All-Star game.
I tried ‘Black Panther.’ I escaped from the cinema after 20 minutes. I thought it was as bad as ‘Star Wars.’ I hated ‘Star Wars.’
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.
I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
George Bush doesn’t care about black people.
After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
My least favorite ingredient to cook with is black pepper.
I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.
I’m looking forward to it, to be able to represent the black culture… but I’m doing my best at managing it, keeping it behind me, and that’s the best thing I can do.
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Who’s the new Ramones, who’s the new Guns ‘N Roses, who’s the new Motley Crue, who’s the new Black Sabbath? They’re coming, they’re on the street, they’re 16, 17 years old.
Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.
I’m here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that’s true of every black person I know who has achieved.
There was a while when I was feeling like, ‘Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this’.
I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it.
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
My first web series, ‘Dorm Diaries,’ was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I’m black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.
Do you know, it’s funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
I’m happy to say I’m a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white – we’re all in it together.
For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
Some people feel that because you are black you will never be treated fairly, and that you should voice your opinions, be militant about them. I don’t feel this way. You can’t convince a fool against his will.
Black pepper is necessary to absorb the key antioxidants in most spices and foods, including turmeric, so get a pepper grinder and fill it with Tellicherry peppercorns.
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
For some reason, we’re brainwashed to think if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don’t break the law, you’re not a good black person.
I am black or white, I’ll never be grey in my life.
I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn’t speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, ‘What? That’s your son.’
